Jochem felt better today and was able to eat solid foods again! I was relieved, because if Jochem is at home to help me cook or even to just watch over me while I cook, I find that I cook so much better. For me food is very much a social thing and I enjoy having Jochem around while I do it. So, today we cooked something absolutely fantastic around one central thought: Nuria craves red meat! I love steak and we bought a rib-eye steak at our local organic butcher shop and Jochem prepared it with all the classics: extra virgen olive oil, sea salt, grounded pepper, rosemary and garlic. To accompany the steak we made new potatoes from the oven. But the masterpiece of this dish was neither of these two things. For the first time ever I made carrots. I never particularly liked carrots as a kid so it almost never shows up in my food, but Jamie Oliver makes it in such a way that enticed me to try it at last. I made a little tin foil bag and put in the carrots together with cumin seeds (don't you just LOVE cumin?!), fresh thyme, sea salt, grounded pepper, butter and white wine. I let it steam in the oven for 45 minutes at 220 degrees celcius and I swear to God, it's just so delicious that it cast a big fat shadow on the organic beef! It's my new favorite vegetable alongside grilled leek. Please try it sometime - you won't be sorry!
Source: The Return of the Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
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